Thanks for the warning: what are the symptoms of failure do you know?
ATB, Peter
On 14 May 2013 16:57, Martin N <martin.n@???> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> At 22:14 13/05/2013, you wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Just to resurrect this thread and let you know what happened.
>>
>> I tried rsyncing the contents of my system partition to a new
>> partition on the same disk and surprisingly that gave a significant
>> speed-up, around 10-20% at a guess. This is with ext4 fs. Not sure why
>> that would be, but perhaps different placement on the platter meant
>> less head movement, or defragmentation if that affects ext4?
>>
>> THEN I splashed out £40 at eBuyer for a 60GB OCZ SSD. I put the old
>> system disk into an external caddy on USB with all my data, so the SSD
>> is just for the system. Wow! Start-up times for the computer and for
>> applications are fantastic (about 45 seconds from power on to using
>> firefox, of which the first 10s or so are for POST and grub, compared
>> with over 2 minutes total before). The CPU is now maxed out (all four
>> cores) and the disk activity indicator hardly flickers.
>>
>
>
> OCZ SSDs are notorious for failing early.
> I would keep monitoring it at regular intervals.
>
> Martin N
>
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